Why do some people call a carbonated beverage pop, some call it soda, and others call it sodapop? What do you prefer to call it and why?

I think it comes down to geography, and advertising! http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county. Html If you check out the map for the US, you can see that certain areas call drinks soda or pop based pretty much on location.

Now each location has specific brands too, and that brand might contain the word Soda or Pop or something so we call all drinks by a generic term....for example Super Soda, Super Pop(3) I'll include some stats for you to look through(4) There is also a little history involved "The world ‘pop’ was introduced by Robert Southey, the British Poet Laureate (1774-1843), to whom we also owe the word ‘autobiography’, among others.In 1812, he wrote: A new manufactory of a nectar, between soda-water and ginger-beer, and called pop, because ‘pop goes the cork’ when it is drawn. Even though it was introduced by a Poet Laureate, the term ‘pop’ is considered unsophisticated by some, because it is onomatopaeic. " (2) In Australia we call them soft drinks or fizzy drinks.

Soft drinks to distinguish them from hard drinks containing alcohol and fizzy drinks because they contain bubbles! Makes sense to me :).

It has to do with the radio and television programming they got/get in their area.

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